ACPN

VisonTo place Community
Pharmacy Practice in an enviable position in the
health delivery system in Nigeria.

Mission Statement

To encourage and empower every Community
Pharmacist to be a healthcare professional
of international standard.

To strive to make the Community pharmacist
environment conducive for a healthy practice
for the benefit of the patient

To put the patient first in our practice by
advancing care.

To promote the image of Pharmacy through the
use of the Green cross Emblem by every
registered retail Community Pharmacy outlet

To promote cordial inter –
professional relations with other healthcare
professionals in the best interest of the
patient

To be dependable healthcare providers in the
provision of quality, safe, efficacious and
cost effective drugs and health information
services in the community.

To promote preventive care e.g.
immunization.

Overview of ACPNNigerian
Association of General Practice Pharmacists
(NAGPP) now Association of Community Pharmacists
of Nigeria (ACPN) was the first of the Technical
Group of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN)
to be inaugurated in 1981 in Kaduna State.

Since then it has consistently held its Annual
National Conference and AGM. ACPN has been
in the forefront of the Technical groups of
PSN. ACPN is the backbone of PSN.

The Members are very active in Pharmacy
Profession matters. The group has been producing
the President of PSN and over 85% of the
officers from time to time. From 1981 to date
the Association has made a lot of achievements
under various leaderships.

The Association has been performing credibly well
in international organizations such as
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP),
Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA)
and West African Postgraduate College of
Pharmacists (WAPCP) for years.

The ACPN within its year of existence has, from
inception to date, made tremendous and
consistent strides especially in the areas of
the upliftment of the quality of pharmacy
practice and the welfare of pharmacists.

The ACPN has taken giant strides in several areas
like facilitating the setting up of Drug
Information Centre (DIC), encouraging the
setting up of Rural Pharmacies and effectively
opposing the obnoxious Drug Mart policy among
others. The production of Drug Information
leaflets in educating pharmacists and the public
is highly commendable.

ACPN members are now playing leading role in
areas of Primary Healthcare such as Health
education, drug information, disease prevention,
immunization, family planning, provision of
essential drugs, GHAIN etc.

No doubt, ACPN has made landmark achievements
over the years in a bid to improve the Community
Pharmacy practice in Nigeria.

Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria
(ACPN) was also duly registered with the
Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja on the 18th
day of April, 2007 and was issued a Certificate
of Incorporation. Under the hand and the Common
Seal of this commission – the names of the
members of the Board of Trustees are:

Pharm. (Prince) Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi,
FPSN, OFR mni

Pharm. (Mrs.) Caroline Olusola Ogbe-Urevbu,
FPSN

Pharm. (Alh) Abdul-Rahaman Musa Momodu, FPSN

Pharm. (Mrs.) Rosemary Nikoro, FPSN

Pharm. Ikechukwu Onyechi, FPSN

Membership of ACPNThe
membership of the Association of Community
Pharmacists of Nigeria is made up of membership
from State branches of ACPN. All members
within this Association are registered yearly to
fulfill their financial obligations by paying up
their statutory fees to the Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria and Capitation fees to the
Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria
before such a Pharmacist can be recognized as a
member.

Scope of Practice of Commnunity
PharmacistsThe ACPN is an
Association of all Pharmacists practicing in the
community with their practice focused on
dispensing and retailing, carrying out
wholesaling of medicines, feeding the hospitals,
and Clinics etc within the community.

The PSN Foundation

A
landmark, historic event took place in the annals of Nigeria's
Pharmaceutical sector and the healthcare industry as a whole
with the launching of the PSN Foundation and
the inauguration of the Trustees of the PSN Foundation by the
Hon. Minister of Health, alongside the President of PSN and the Dep.
President of the NMA in the presence of the Emir of Kamo, Lamido
Sanusi II (ably represented). Download
the Making of the PSN Foundation brochure to
know more...

79TH FIP WORLD CONGRESS OF PHARMACY AND
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

22 - 26
September 2019 Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates

Like the profession in the rest
of the developed world, pharmacy in the United Arab Emirates
capital Abu Dhabi and the other six Emirates is moving
towards new horizons in practice and education through the
provision of world-class health care for its population and
a first-rate education system for its health care
practitioners.